• Logo plus "College Chemistry Collaboration"

    Teachers working together to help students put chemistry concepts together.

    Teacher explaining chemistry to young lady by pointing at periodic table on wall.

    Students

    If your teacher is using this site, you will access the site directly from your school's learning management system (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, BrightSpace, etc.).  Our initial goal is to make this the best site in the world for learning "general chemistry" (that's the first year of college chemistry).  We hope you enjoy learning here.

    Teachers

    This site provides a place for college chemistry teachers to work together creating, sharing, and using learning resources, all licensed under a Creative Commons "Same As" license.  We can share lab write-ups.  We can use this site to deliver interactive labs, where the student receives feedback, such as "The buret reading should be to the hundredths of an mL," or "Your significant digits are wrong."  We can turn the OpenStax Chemistry book into an interactive textbook and have a complete online homework system that isn't just multiple choice problems, and have superb PowerPoints for each chapter.  Help to make it happen!  If you are seeking tenure, you can include work here as "Service to the community" on your tenure package.

    If you are a chemistry teacher, please register!  Unlike other sites, this site is run by the teachers.  We plan to create a nonprofit organization to own the site and site name, to set policies, and to manage any financial matters (hosting a web site involves a small cost). 

    Click on "Log In" for guest access.  Also, a page with questions and answers about this project is available.

    Teachers:  How to Register

    Send me (Chris King) an email by clicking on Register.  Include a link to a page on your school's web page that shows that you are a chemistry teacher.  I should respond within 24 hours.

    Links to image and licenses from Wikipedia commons:  Home page, General Chemistry course, Lab course.  The header picture is of a high school classroom (Andrew Irvine is the teacher).  When we have enough content, we could open the site up to high school teachers.

    Possibilities from Working Together

    Textbook

    Edit the OpenStax Chemistry Book

    Improve the style and content of this open-access textbook.  Make it even more interactive.

    Homework and Tests

    Create an online homework system that can also deliver tests.  Measure student performance to determine if the individual questions/tutorials are effective.  Provide to students at a very low cost.

    Lectures

    Classroom Feedback Quizzes

    Provide a question bank for each chapter, along with a PowerPoint slide to show the class the question (and, afterwards, the answer).

    PowerPoints

    Complete with objectives, animations to simulate working on a blackboard, and summary questions for starting the next lecture.

    Labs

    Create Lab Write-ups

    By sharing and editing, we can create superb labs.

    Deliver Labs Online

    Create our own videos to be used as pre-lab lectures.  Include questions over that lecture to act as a pre-lab quiz.  Use the sophisticated math functions in Moodle to provide feedback to the students as they submit their answers.

Available courses

General Chemistry Lecture

The OpenStax chemistry textbook gets turned into a learning tool by adding interactive content and questions for homework, tests, classroom response, etc.  PowerPoints to accompany each chapter will be prepared.